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FILES-CANADA-US-HARP SEALS
TO GO WITH AFP STORY CANADA-HUNTING-ANIMAL BY MICHEL COMTE
(FILES)This International Fund For Animal Welfare handout photo shows a hunter as he clubs a harp seal during the opening day of the 2010 Canadian commercial seal hunt, on April 8, 2010 off the coast of Newfoundland. A lack of sea ice in one of the warmest Canadian winters on record and a European boycott have ruined what was to be a banner seal hunt off Canada's Atlantic coast this month, according to officials and sealers. Canada's Fisheries Minister Gail Shea last month increased by 50,000 the allowable catch of harp seals this season to 330,000, in defiance of a ban on seal products by the European Union. But most of Canada's 6,000 sealers stayed home, unable to find buyers for their catch or stymied by a lack of ice floes for the first time in 60 years on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, which usually host hordes of seals birthing pups. AFP PHOTO/IFAW/HANDOUT/RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE/NOT FOR RESALE
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8 Aprilie 2010 |
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